This paper investigates the social endogenous eect linking the employment probability of young workers entering the labour market to the local employment rate. We focus on the transition from school to work, using a representative sample of youths leaving the French educational system in 1998 and 2004. We identify the causal eect of local employment rate using a neighbourhood xed-eect strategy (Bayer et al. (2007) ). We provide evidence that the within-neighbourhood random allocation assumption

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... is likely to hold. The results show that an individual's own employment is strongly aected by the share of working people in their neighbourhood, estimates being higher for high-school dropouts. Results also reveal gender dierences, suggesting that young people are more sensitive to same-sex neighbours.